National Plan for Food and Nutrition Security (2012-2015).

This National Plan for Food and Nutrition Security (CAISAN 2012-2015) has a twin-track for an immediate hunger relief interventions with a long-term strategy for sustainable growth. To provide effective results, this Plan objectives, in line with the guidelines set forth in Decree No. 7.272/2010, must respond primarily to the great challenges that threaten the human rights to adequate food and food sovereignty. These challenges are the result of a broad debate within the government and civil society, organized in the National Council for Food and Nutritional Security (CONSEA), intended to explain the central public agendas of food security and nutrition by defining key priorities to be monitored more systematically in view of eradicating extreme poverty, and eliminating hunger and food insecurity through plans promoting participatory environmental management of indigenous territories. According to the National Household Survey 2009 11.2 million people still live with serious food insecurity in Brazil. Although the data show a positive evolution in access to food, food availability and food utilisation in quantity and quality, groups living in rural Northern areas, such as: households headed by women, coloured and indigenous communities are more vulnerable to hunger.
The Brazilian agricultural production recorded in the last 20 years a significant growth for many of food agricultural products. Those who have had the greatest increases were: soybean (188%), sugarcane (156%) and corn (138%), ie oriented monocultures mainly for export or cultures hold extended areas. Food produced for the domestic market had lower growth, such as: tomato (91%), onion (74%), rice (70%), wheat (63%), beans in grain (56%), potato (54%), oat (42%) and cassava (IBGE, 2009). In addition, as reported by the Agricultural Censuses from 1970 to 2006, the number of cattle increased by 218%, while the pigs remained unchanged and sheep decreased by almost 20%, in number of heads. The cattle herd growth took place due to the sharp expansion of the participation of the North. The Plan aims at carry out research and development to support family farming and the sustainability of rural areas, technology transfer and local experiences in agroecological production systems, adapted to the reality of family farming, rural women, peoples and traditional communities.
Objective 7 aims to promote access to land to farm workers and the development process of settlement as ways to democratize ownership, combat rural poverty, expand domestic food supply and food security and nutrition and developing technologies for agricultural and livestock production competitiveness.
The Plan also is complying with bilateral memorandums of understanding with international organizations for disaster risk management and emergency humanitarian response, recovery and reconstruction in other countries in order to strengthen international projects and programs to promote food and nutrition security and stimulate protection , promotion and provision of the Human Right to Adequate Food. It establishes the need to ensure the continuity and improvement of policies that extend the conditions of access to food of those who are more vulnerable to hunger, ie: extremely poor families, students, elderly, indigenous, quilombo and other peoples and traditional communities facing natural calamities and disasters. Coping initiatives of these issues appear mainly in guideline 1.